cPanel Web Hosting Definition

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number Three: An utter shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Problem No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...